Is anyone still watching Syria's civil war?

Ben Levin, Newsy

7:07 PM, Jul 18, 2014

About the size of North Dakota, capital is Damascus, led by Bashar Al-Assad, Syria is home to the world's longest-running and deadliest civil war.

Yet between a crashed plane in Ukraine, Israeli tanks in Gaza, and the fall of northern Iraq to ISIS militants, the Western media has all but forgotten a conflict that has killed 170,000 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

But the fighting rolls on, and things aren't going well for the opponents of Sunni extremist group ISIS. For more insight into the war, watch this Newsy video.

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